It didn’t help that the first EVFs didn’t have as much resolution as they do today. The novel electronic viewfinders, still in their infancy, were expectedly sluggish. When the first mainstream mirrorless cameras entered the market, many were skeptical about its viability. January to September 2020 Total Shipment from CIPA Things are certainly not looking great for DSLRs, seeing how 2019’s data showed shipment numbers that are still a notch below 2018’s shipment data. 2019 Still Camera Shipmentįrom January to August of 2020, camera manufacturers have reported a 54% decrease in sales from the previous year’s figures within the same period. Less than a decade later, the total number of DSLRs shipped worldwide has shrunk down to just 4.5 million in 2019 - 27.78% of its former volume seven years ago. This figure excludes mirrorless cameras, compact cameras, and rangefinders. Back in 2012, the camera industry moved 16.2 million digital single lens reflex cameras worldwide. Looking back at the data from CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association), 2012 was perhaps the height of DSLRs in terms of the total number of units shipped globally. There was a DSLR camera for everyone - industry giants Canon and Nikon had extremely capable offerings starting from the entry-level to their pro lineup.īut why is it that we aren’t seeing as many people with now “old school” DSLR cameras hanging around their necks? Well, tech has inevitably moved on and have introduced lighter, smaller, and dare I say, better cameras with better selling points for the average consumer. They were the go-to cameras for people curious about photography and professionals who, with a heavy heart, abandoned film and jumped ship to digital. Let’s run through some figures and see how the camera industry has fared since its peak and unfortunate decline. Throw in a global pandemic into the mix of already hurting market segments, and the numbers get a little grimmer pretty quickly. On the other, smartphones, in just a touch over a decade of existence, had already dwarfed the total sales of dedicated cameras in the last half century. On one hand, we’re seeing the end game of the mirrorless revolution, overtaking their mirror-touting predecessors in total unit sales according to recent reports.
The camera industry is currently in a very interesting place.
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